I was just wondering what would happen if I downloaded a game that was infected by a computer virus and ran it in Linux using Proton.

Has this happened to anyone? How would the virus behave? What files, connections or devices would it have access to? Could it be as damaging as running in in Windows?

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.caOP
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    4 months ago

    No no, I mean if someone downloads an infected pirated game from some shady website. I consider Steam to be very secure.

    • dillekant@slrpnk.net
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      4 months ago

      In that case Steam flatpak isn’t really what you want. You probably want to use Bottles, which creates a flatpak-like sandbox. This is not a guarantee or anything, but does give you some protection (at least, better than running it on Windows I guess).